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Portraits of Friendship

“Wherever we are, it is our friends
that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond

South Africa
Puerto Rico

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.  There is a time for silence.  A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
– Gloria Naylor

France
Cambodia
Burma

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.”
George Washington

Burma
Yemen
Brazil

“What is a friend? 
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”  
– Aristotle

South Africa
Cuba
Bangladesh

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”  
– Nigerian Proverb

Tibet
India

“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at
last a drop which makes it run over;
so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one
which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson

Namibia
Lebanon
China

“Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”  
Aristotle

Ukraine
Afghanistan

Faithful friends are hard to find.”
– William Shakespeare

China
India
Germany

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.
It is the spiritual inspiration  that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Burma

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

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Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 –  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –   Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY, USA

Thu, Feb 8, 2024  Sat, Mar 9, 2024

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Eloquence of the Eye

The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious
but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
– Charlotte Bronte

Sanaa, Yemen

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye,
one seeing, one knowing, one love.
– Meister Eckhart,  1259 – 1327

Afghanistan

These eyes tell the stories of
children around the world.
They speak of war, deprivation, and loss.

Rajasthan, India
Umbria, Italy

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
 William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

Rajasthan, India

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. Chesterton

Lhasa, Tibet
Nuristan, Afghanistan

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
– Sholom Aleichem

Bombay, India

Bagan, Burma
Baluchistan, Pakistan

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson

Tahoua, Niger

The eyes are the most powerful social signalers that we have and hence are sometimes called the windows of the soul.
– Glen Wilson

Srinagar, Kashmir

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535 – c. 475 BCE

Lourdes, France

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
– Henry David Thoreau

La Esperanza, Colombia

Eyes have their own universal language, and
no interpreter is needed.

Baluchistan, Pakistan

Afghanistan

The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BCE

Gao, Mali
Kashmir

The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
– St. Jerome

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Conversation: Food for the Soul

Spain

Conversation is food for the soul.
– Mexican Proverb

Korea

Turmi, Ethiopia

Rajasthan, India

Madagascar

Wadi Rum, Petra, Jordan

Lourdes, France

 Barcelona, Spain

Tanzania, Africa

Pristina, Kosovo

 The character of a man is known from his conversations.
– Menander, 342 – 292 BCE

Morocco

Baluchistan, Pakistan

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice.
– Michel de Monta

Afghanistan

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another’s observation, not overturning it.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 – 1873

Skopje, Macedonia

Orvieto, Umbria

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Our Faces: Unpublished Portraits

Sahel region, Africa

Portraits reveal a desire for human connection,
a desire so strong that people who know they will never see me again open themselves to the camera,  all in the hope that at the other end someone will be watching, someone who will laugh or suffer with them.

Yemen

 

Thailand

 

 Nepal

 

Tibet

 

Pakistan/Afghanistan Border

 

South Africa

 

Afghanistan

 

Yugoslavia

 

Tibet

 

Afghanistan

 

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

 

Kashmir

 

Afghanistan

 

Japan

 

Macedonia

 

Kashmir

 

Italy

 

India

 

Yemen

 

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

 

Nepal

 

Yemen

Madrid, Spain

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Portraits of Innocence

Benin

 Tibet

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.
– Wess Stafford

Bagan, Burma

Every child comes with the message that
God is not yet discouraged of man.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Kabul, Afghanistan

Russia

Oaxaca, Mexico

You must work — we all must work —
to make this world worthy of its children.
– Pablo Casals

Kabul, Afghanistan

Yemen

Children are the living messages we send to a
time we will not see.
– President John F. Kennedy

 Nepal

The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Guatemala

Oaxaca, Mexico

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
 – Fred Rogers

Yemen

Jordan

The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Kham, Tibet

Thailand

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments —
tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.
–  Louis Pasteur

Guatemala

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Essence of Life
Nantucket, Massachusetts
July 18 – 28, 2019

Le Monde de Steve McCurry
Lyon, France
Ends July 21, 2019

Visages de L’Innocence
Barbizon, France
Ends September 22, 2019

Steve McCurry: Animals
Aosta, Italy
Ends October 5, 2019